The future will be soft and low

For few years I believed in soft cover for compters, home comptuters do not need hard cover. It only need to care of dust and liquid like "Scotchgard", soft cover could refresh it with out fan or liquid system. I'm so happy to see this concept car because it's hopening a new way. This is also going with e-paper like sony, HP or LG screens.
If you believe in a softer world and gentle technology, there one point also interesting this slow design like the slow car designed by Jurgen Bey

little dog

A smaller version of my favorite robot Big dog.

first robot-human theatre production

Yes Osaka is the best place for people who are looking for new robots.
A 20 minute production by playwright Oriza Hirata at Japan's Osaka University Hirata is also a visiting professor at the and was performed for the media ahead of a possible full-scale public run in the next year or so. Hirata and the rest of the project team wrote special software that lets the robots move and deliver the right lines.
In the play, the robot is complaining that it has been forced into boring and demeaning jobs and enters into a discussion with the humans about its role in their lives.

This event shows how human is trying to integrate robot in all ways of creations. Do robot have a feelings or imagination and can it be translate in human language. For me the best performance by a robot is when I see the perfect gesture repeated again and again like monk, I feel something spiritual in it, something beyond human condition.

Usefull robot

Sometimes when I make research for robot's news , I'm wondering about the real purpose of their utility. Robot has a fonction, replace human for hard work, " robota" in the biginning. All the compagnies are showing them playing football, playing violin and other useless demonstration. This video is for me one of the most ridiculous. Of course I understand the technological target but sometimes I'm wondering if labo teams are not working for circus of the future.

The shadow

First test for my short movie " The shadow". Cornelius capsule travelling -7 '. From now I'll show the work in progress of this project.

Robo Q

RoboQ will be the smallest robot on the market. Basic fonctions like find its way out of a maze and dodge unexpected obstacles. The price also will be very attractive only Y3,500. The Robo Japan 2008 showned more than a 1000 robots.
For pictures

Ashley Wood

Ashley Wood is one of my favorite illustrators. If you like robots, oil painting and good illustrations, you'll enjoy his artwork. No need to say but also lovelies pin-ups. He is also well known for "Popbot".

Dance and computing

A tendancy in dance world today is to find a new way for non human body mouvement and the relation between dancer and technology. The body become a part of the captation system or a part of the dialogue between machine and dance space. The point is " Can the spectator understand a non human interpretation of the sound or silence ? " Do we have connection with a non soul performer ( the machine ) ? Is the dancer the emotional part of just becoming an interface. New technologies in dance performing is very interesting if you consider pain, tiredness as a human vocabulary in performing what is out of computer system.

Memories

Do you remember the first times you saw robots or played with. Sometimes only a title can open a huge space in imagination and becoming a reference for even work direction in your life. Magnus was one of it, the name of the heroe was so impressive for little boys. Before movies like silent running, blade runner, forbidden planet, a simple cover of a comic's could determinate your futur tastes and make a generation addict to "Bender".

beyond human being

One more time the question is " Robot needs human or not ?"
If the robot is developping his own sensations with a rat brain, what would be the next step. May be the human brain is not appropriate, "irrational".

vinyl art toys

A nice and cool exhition of friend. For peoples who are fan of vinyle toys ;-)
Can be seen at Artoys.

Sega Toys robot Ema

If you believe in romance between a human and a machine, this robot will be your first date with a female shape , a ginoïde. If you turn your mind why would it be with a fake girlfriend. More interesting would be to discover a new form of love, a new way of emotional relation. This robot also have a baby size, must be twisted to fall in love, no ?

Cube festival

This week end I visited Le Cube Festival, it's nice to see people developing an exhibition program dedicate to digital art. Thank's to Carine Lemalet who spent time to show me the artists works. I liked smoke tree by John Gerrard.

LittleDog

"I want one !"

Jellyfish robot

Always funny to see one of your creation becoming real. When I created Callme, people were wondering if it could be possible. The answer is "YES". Zoomorphic robot form seems to be a main research for a very near future.

next exhibition

" LES IMAGES d’HENRY CHAPIER"
du 20 juin au 24 août au Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image

Le Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image et la Cinémathèque de Nice organisent pour la première fois un projet commun autour d’Henry Chapier, éditorialiste culturel, journaliste, critique de cinéma, auteur et réalisateur, qui, depuis les années 60, n’a cessé de défendre, dans la presse comme à la télévision, le cinéma et la photographie.

27, Boulevard Dubouchage, 06000 NICE
Tél : (+33) (0)4 97 13 42 20

Ouverture : de 10h à 18h.
Fermé le lundi et certains jours fériés.

shooting for my friend JP SET

Sometimes shooting can be funny. I'll show the result later but I wanted to share it as a preview.My friend JP SET is preparing his one-man show for summer in paris. We made funny image but I like the atmosphere of this one.

Molecular Gastronomy

This week was my first experience with Thierry Marx at the le laboratoire. A little disappointed, I expected a real experience, not a bento with agar_agar.
If you're interested like me in lab cooking experiences, Heston Blumenthal is my favorite. The french physico-chimist hervé This also nice to know.

The oldest japanese robot revived

Built in 1928 by biologist Makoto Nishimura, Gakutensoku was first exhibited in Kyoto as part of the formal celebration of the Showa Emperor’s ascension to the throne. The robot traveled to a number of expos and wowed onlookers with its mad calligraphy skills before going missing in Germany. After a long disappearance, Gakutensoku was located and later repatriated to Osaka.

A funny robot

I can't resist to show you this homemade robot.

A forest of pc

The more technological environement is growing, the more human nature is looking for a nature, a sensible world to be in touch with roots. Fujitsu and Monacca developped a wooden pc, this tendence might become bigger like the zoomorph as well. It's just a question of feeling, a new flower power techno.

From out of space

Sometimes it's good and funny to see a vision of the post-future. I hope you'll enjoy it. Our vision of the future could also look like a joke for the next generation.
Have fun !

Human Behavior

Recently, entering a community I had to answer questions file as always. The surprise was the last question:
«R u human ?»
This question was against the robots. The real question is « The war began ?»

Big dog

This robot is maybe one of the most scary creature. I love it because of the shape and the noise completely out of soft design. It's like a nightmare. The interesting fact is the creators did not try to make it similar as a dog, no head, no tail, no stupid nickname.
If you consider robot with out human point of view may be this one is vision of a possible future.

Astro boy

In 1951, Osamu Tezuka created Astro Boy. Few years ago I met Honda's chief engineer of robotic departement who explained me why they created Asimo at first. Mr Honda wanted a friendly robot like Astro Boy in the 70's. In a room there was the manga collection of Astro boy ( mighty Atom ). The engineers had to read it and copy the concept, all were car engineers and became robotic engineers because of the project. I believe many people like me became robot's fans because of it.
The funny thing is when I asked the chief engineer if Asimo was an homage to Asimov, he asked me "Who is Asimov ?"

Coming soon : Astro boy, CG-animated movie, 2009

Robot of my dreams

Of course, this reminds us Philip K. Dick
Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positions, "Sleep Waking" acts as a way to "play-back" dreams. Through this piece we hope to investigate one of the possible human-robot relationships.
Fernando Orellana

my doctor is a robot

A very important part of robotic for me is concerning the medical part, surgery especially. When I was making some research for Electrumcorpus, I had interview with differents surgeons. One was very interesting for me because I was developping tools for the robot he was working with on heart operations. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves cutting of a body. Before the robot, surgeons used to say " Great surgeon, great scare", now a small hole is enough, thank's to the robot and it's non ego. Human created the machine, the machine is repairing the human. Maybe it is a moment of real conversation between two types of machines in a way. The more we accept the fact of depending on robots, the more flesh will just be consider as a past structure. I believe we are very close to the step, not only repairing but definitively replacing human physical fonctions to achieve humanoid vision.

Before sex there is tenderness,thank's Wow wee !

Love and Sex with Robots

From the "L'Ève future" by Villiers de L'Isle Adam, robot is a projection of man's fantaisy, control the partner and become the master of a sexual slave. No feeling, no dialogue only childish desire, animated toys for adults. Robot as an object of desire is also the connection between flesh and machine, a new step to the posthuman like the vision of Jean michel Truong . If the artificial intelligence was the master and started to make human depending, love and sex not for the future of humanity but the begining of the robotic chaos. Thinking about social laws controling the relation between human and robot make me think a about loosing the control on a natural situation. Artificial sexuality means artificial life and artificial life does not need a weack stucture like human body.
Welcome to the next step of evolution.
If some of you want to try now, Honey dolls company make you dreams come true.


Interview with David Levy
Jean Michel truong on line

Robot design

Nothing new in robot's design.

Final frontier

The web is a strange time machine, can be considered like a universal memory. Forgotten is a human power in a way when I see this kind of strange crossover. Words can give you a feeling even a nostalgic image of a forgotten past but a web can be like a pornographic image, raw with no seduction just the fact with out mystery. Sometimes it's better to leave the past in the pandora's box. A simple keyword can distroy a nice memory like when your brain is showing you a fake image of an old TV serie, just a feeeling of a perfect past.

Robot is human best friend ;-)

When I make research on robots, I mostely I found military development. It's reminds me the three Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

It's good to know and remember for a better future.

Hologram, fashion and washable clothes

Kate Moss Hologram - Alexander McQueen Fashion Show a good exemple of a possible future for virtual show, the power of image and the developpement of 3d.
Sometimes technology and fashion can become a nice couple. I always believed in. The future is a mix between design and technology. The first step is may be fashion show and designers like Hussein Chalayan, my favorite one.

When a man is following his dreams.

Virgin galactic

Modernity in photography

photo: christophe Luxereau














The photography changed the last ten years with the digital cameras. The media moved from paper to screen but the medium is still the same . From the past to the near future light is fixing on a sensitive plate. Nothing changed exept one thing, photography exist through the video technology and became a part of the video camera.
If you have choice between an image and the mouvement. The answer is youtube and other website dedicated to short movies. A painting or a photography need to have a culture to look at, the mouvement is enough for most of the people because TV is the reference. If you look at the 19th century photographies creation was there. Today photography can only be saved by the graphic computering . The next generation will not have nostalgia for the photography. Video will become a part of instant memory, already some young people can not remember what they did 3 days before with out recording.

Robot for which purpose

If robots are becoming a part of our life in a very near future. What will be the purpose, labor, entertainer and beyond mecanic shape is there a robotic life form ?
Is humanoide shape a good solution or just a very short vision of the real posthuman world.
I do not believe in this solution, the global robotisation is on the way. No more labor strike, no more pain for old worker's body. Robots will develop their own shape, far from human shape.

Future is now

When I was working on Electrumcorpus concept, i was considering my vision as a preview of the next 10 years. It was in 2002, may be I was not so wrong.Contact lenses with circuits,University of Washington

The shadow project

We start with a test mixing photography and 3D ( c4d ). This blog will follow the project.
To see my artwork visit my homepage:
www.luxereau.com